Government Eyeing Freezing And Seizing Assets
Apollo Nida and Phaedra Parks
Reality TV just got real on the "Real Housewives Of
Atlanta." Apollo Nida, the ex-convict husband of lawyer Phaedra
Parks, is under criminal indictment on massive identity theft
charges. The U.S. Secret Service, charged with protecting the
President of the United States, also addresses select crimes dealing
with mail and wire fraud. The Secret Service brought Nida up on
charges alleging he stole $3,000,000 via creating fake companies to
committ identity theft and open many bank accounts to house the
stolen funds.
Previously, Nida spent 5-years in jail for changing
the VIN numbers on cars to sell stolen automobiles. His wife was
implicated in the scandal in a tell-all book. However, she faced no
charges and represented Nida in the case. Once Nida was released
from prison, the two got married and started their own family. The
coupe have two young sons. With family comes responsibility.
However, with the way things are going, Parks will have to raise her
sons without Nida.
Prior to the "Real Housewives Of Atlanta" Parks was
most known for being singer Bobby Brown's attorney during his
troubling bouts with drugs and alcohol and during his divorce from
the late legendary singer, Whitney Houston.
Parks took a chance on Nida, where some probably
warned her about his past and the time he did in prison. However,
everyone deserves a second chance. Many come out of prison and do no
re-offend. There are many who were arrested for crimes who have been
living honest, successful lives. They deserve to be commended for
turning their lives around. But Nida didn't do that. He went right
back to crime.
Apollo fighting on last week's episode of the "Real Housewives
Of Atlanta" as his wife tries to stop him
Nida had a new life with Parks, who helped him with
his legal troubles. He even started a career as a personal trainer.
There's nothing wrong with a woman helping her man get through a
rough time and trying to build him up into a successful, respectable
member of society. However, problems occur when people refuse to
leave their old life of crime behind, attempting to get quick money
and unethically climb the ladder of success overnight.
It's regrettable Nida didn't learn from his past
mistakes that landed him in prison. To come out of prison, meet and
marry a successful lawyer, move into her lovely home, have two kids
with her and a new career, was a blessing and one Nida took for
granted.
He preferred the fast life of illegally gained
money, spending thousands on strippers at the strip club, cheating
on his wife and taking her for granted. Now he's facing up to
20-years in prison. If convicted he is going to miss his children
growing up, which is something you can't put a price tag on. Rather
than satisfying with the wife he has, he cheated on her and is now
potentially facing years without the company of a woman in a men's
prison (and as pretty as he is, if he is sent back to prison, gay
men are going to target him behind bars).
Be thankful for what you have in life. Treasure your
freedom. It's better to live within your means and work hard to
properly and ethically progress in society, than to end up in prison
for years over a fast rise up the ladder of success that came from
criminal activity.
